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Ma'am;... Not being one to suffer fools in silence, let me reply... Unions are many people, and bond holders are few, and many bond holders have already walked away with much profit which the union workers made for them...Now; you suggest that contracts freely entered into should be trashed, and workers denied their rights, denied their pensions, and denied even their jobs only because of the greed, and unleashed greed of a few sucked all available wealth out of this society to invest beyond our shores... What control did the workers have over their affairs, or the world economy???...Let me tell you a story: There once was a Native American named Parker, and after peace he was told by some reporter that he would have to pick one wife out of his many, and tell the rest they were no longer his wives... The Native told the reporter: You tell them... Let me say the same thing..You tell them.... The workers had a legal contract, and they held up their ends of it... Now; you tell them that to preserve some rich peoples fortunes that they must give up what is their due... Go stand in a large group of them, and tell them to eat this crap...The problem is this: You rich fools count too much on the rule of law, and you count too much upon the natural morality of all people keeping violence last on their list...The people are the law, and when people feel abused by the law no one can count on the peace being maintained...The law must do justice...It is one thing to sit at your computer and suggest doing a wrong to this great number of people... Bond holders were always gambling on being able to get in, and get out, unscathed...They were taking a premium for doing nothing other than risking money... They did not invest their lives and labor in that adventure of building autos... So have some courage as all you rich people should, and dare to explain it to those people directly, that their lives invested were not nearly so valuable as the money the rich invested... Even that is a lie, since 60% of the money invested in the economy is union money, and they take a hit every time the rich take a hit; but you want to give it to them on both ends without so much as a message, or a kiss... Have the courage to put it to them directly... The rich people make a huge mistake to count on law, and to count on their police while they go about destroying their own economy... If the rest of society does not work, then law, no matter how glorified and respected by its practioners, -will not work either...Respect makes law... Morals make law; and to have morals and respect people must have communities that work...There is a tendency to look at working people as cattle, and as undeserving of respect or rights... You think people run scared of law??? The people are peaceful, and want nothing more than peace... But if your society does not work, and takes too much from them, then they will grow militant in a heartbeat...You do not want to see that close up... Stay hid, and snipe at that group from a distance as fits your courage... And what courage...Thanks...Sweeney